Wallace-Benjamin Out

Joan Wallace-Benjamin will resign as Deval Patrick's Chief of Staff and return to running the Home for Little Wanderers, according to a press release just sent out by the governor's office.

I can't say this is going to come as a shock to many people. Not that she's caused any disasters (to my knowledge), but she just hasn't seemed like the right person for the job, and the job is too important to not have the right person in it.

So who gets the next shot at it?

Update: Answer: Doug Rubin, according to the State House News Service. The consummate Patrick insider, for good or ill.